Re: Interesting fs corruption story

2001-03-12 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
On 07 Mar 2001 12:22:22 -0800, Tim Wright wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:10:10PM -0500, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > > On 06 Mar 2001 17:01:02 -0800, Tim Wright wrote: > Yes, it does. I have the drive running in UDMA mode 2, and get ~16MB/s from > 'hdparm -t -T&#

Re: Interesting fs corruption story

2001-03-06 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
On 06 Mar 2001 17:01:02 -0800, Tim Wright wrote: > Hi Ettore, > I have no idea if this is related to your problem since you didn't mention > that key part, but with the same drive, I managed to trash my root partition > incredibly badly by trying to use DMA and then do APM suspend or hibernate. >

Re: Interesting fs corruption story

2001-03-04 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
> You could try turning off DMA (rebuild your kernel again, and turn off "use > DMA by default"). Would this be in any way different from just `hdparm -d0 /dev/hda'? > UDMA is known to work reliably only with a (reasonably > broad) subset of chipsets, and it is likely that laptop chipsets get

Interesting fs corruption story

2001-03-04 Thread Ettore Perazzoli
Hello all, I have been telling this story to a few people, and nobody seems to have a clue about what is going on... Alan suggested me to post a description of the problem to this list, so this is what I am doing. So, I had a Dell Inspiron 5000 which worked great for a while. It was running a